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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
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#52: Aug 20th 2015 at 11:34:04 AM

So uh.

A bust by Auguste Rodin was stolen from a Copenhaguen Museum.

Like. In the middle of the day.

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GAP Formerly G.G. from Who Knows? Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
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#57: Oct 17th 2015 at 2:56:53 AM

I asked this in the psychology thread:

I have a question aobut nonconformity, I hearing a lot that you shouldn't conform to trends, religion, etc. but I wonder if someone is conforming to nonconform?

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#58: Oct 17th 2015 at 3:29:35 AM

[up]"Conforming to nonconform" brings up images of teenage rebels without a cause. The message people are trying to relay isn't "don't conform". It's "think for yourself".

edited 17th Oct '15 3:30:09 AM by Kayeka

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#59: Oct 17th 2015 at 3:30:53 AM

You mean being a hipster?

Yes it's possible to confirm to a particular group by deciding to specifically define yourself by being nonconformist to another group.

If you accept everything group A believes because it comes from group A then you are conforming to group A.

If you reject everything group A believes because it comes from group A then you are nonconforming to group A and likely conforming to group B.

If however you accept some things from group A because you agree with them, but do not follow or reject everything group A, then you are nonconforming to group A but also nonconforming to group B.

Finally if you independently come to agree with everything from group A, but do so not because it is what group A believes but what you happen to believe, then you are not conforming to group A per say, you simply happen to be in full agreement with group A.

edited 17th Oct '15 3:33:16 AM by Silasw

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